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America’s First Great Depression: Economic Crisis and Political Disorder after the Panic of 1837 (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, April 2012)

“America’s First Great Depression is an intriguing history of American financial policy in the 1830s and 1840s. Alasdair Roberts’s contention that international financial considerations shaped U.S. policymaking is well sustained, the writing is sprightly, and the argument is nicely documented with a wealth of judiciously culled evidence.”  — Richard John, Columbia University.

“Alasdair Roberts tells a wide-ranging story of the depression that  began in 1837 with lucidity, emphasizing the role of global financial markets and finding plenty of analogies to the economic problems of today.”— Daniel Walker Howe, Pulitzer-Prize-winning author of What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815–1848

The Logic of Discipline: Global Capitalism and the Architecture of Government (New York: Oxford University Press, 2010)

Honorable mention from the Best Book Award 2011 selection committee of the Section on Public Administration Research (SPAR), American Society for Public Administration.

The Collapse of Fortress Bush: The Crisis of Authority in American Government (New York: New York University Press, 2008)

Blacked Out: Government Secrecy in the Information Age (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006)

Charles H. Levine Memorial Book Prize, Research Committee on the Structure of Governance, International Political Science Association; Best Book Award, Public and Nonprofit Division, Academy of Management; Annual Book Award, American Society for Public Administration, Section on Public Administration Research; Louis Brownlow Book Award, National Academy of Public Administration.

So-Called Experts: How American Consultants Remade the Canadian Civil Service, 1918-1921

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